Job Chapter 24

1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the
Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?2 [Some] remove the
landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].3 They drive
away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.4 They
turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising
betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their]
children.6 They reap [every one] his corn in the field: and they gather the
vintage of the wicked.7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that
[they have] no covering in the cold.8 They are wet with the showers of the
mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.9 They pluck the
fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.10 They cause
[him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the
hungry;11 [Which] make oil within their walls, [and] tread [their]
winepresses, and suffer thirst.12 Men groan from out of the city, and the
soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly [to them].13 They
are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor
abide in the paths thereof.14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the
poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.15 The eye also of the
adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth
[his] face.16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked
for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.17 For the morning
[is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the
terrors of the shadow of death.18 He [is] swift as the waters; their portion
is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.19 Drought
and heat consume the snow waters: [so doth] the grave [those which] have sinned.
20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no
more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.21 He evil
entreateth the barren [that] beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.22
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no [man] is sure of
life.23 [Though] it be given him [to be] in safety, whereon he resteth; yet
his eyes [are] upon their ways.24 They are exalted for a little while, but
are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut
off as the tops of the ears of corn.25 And if [it be] not [so] now, who will
make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?